Sentences with phrase «climate summit earlier»

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Obaid hopes that the report will influence negotiations at the Copenhagen climate summit in early December.

A climate summit is a flurry of activity, with the central negotiations surrounded by side shows that last from early in the morning until late at night.

Scientists at a climate change summit in Copenhagen said earlier UN estimates were too low and that sea levels could rise by a metre or more by 2100.

To prime the pump, I mentioned a couple of instances that I reported on Dot Earth, including a report estimating 300,000 deaths a year from global warming and contentious statements made about the predicted die - back of the Amazon rain forest at a climate - science summit in Copenhagen early last year.

The piece is particularly important reading ahead of the United Nations climate «summit» early next week (an event that China's top leadership is skipping, along with India's and Australia's).

I met President Johnson Toribiong earlier this week as the United Nations climate summit ended, and he described the problems, which are particularly troublesome in a place where tourism revolving around reef diving is a top source of income.

At a summit in Manila earlier this month, the expanding Climate Vulnerable Forum, including 43 nations and 1 billion people, pressed for concrete commitments in Paris from rich countries both to more ambitious emissions cuts and aid.

An earlier version said the then Danish climate minister, Connie Hedegaard, had spent a year before the 2009 Copenhagen summit preparing a secret draft text that was shared with a small group of delegates — not, as convention demanded, with all of the countries at the meeting.

The earlier summit will bring together officials from more than 150 countries, including 70 heads of state and government, making it the largest - ever meeting on climate change by world leaders.

The Chinese vice premier, speaking at the summit, said China would make an «even greater effort» to battle climate change and seek to have its rising emissions peak as early as possible.

In his inaugural speech at the COP21 climate change summit in Paris, President Obama acknowledged the terrorist attacks that occurred in the city earlier this month, but warned his fellow leaders not to be distracted from the supposed looming threat of global warming.

«We are pleased that President Obama will be in Copenhagen during the early part of the climate summit.

28 March 2015 Earlier this week, the World Resources Institute (WRI) launched its CAIT Paris Contributions Map, a new tool on the CAIT Climate Data Explorer for tracking and analyzing intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), which are the national climate action plans that will form the basis of a new international climate change agreement, set to be finalized during a high - level climate summit in Paris in December (CClimate Data Explorer for tracking and analyzing intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), which are the national climate action plans that will form the basis of a new international climate change agreement, set to be finalized during a high - level climate summit in Paris in December (Cclimate action plans that will form the basis of a new international climate change agreement, set to be finalized during a high - level climate summit in Paris in December (Cclimate change agreement, set to be finalized during a high - level climate summit in Paris in December (Cclimate summit in Paris in December (COP 21).